ADB Skills for Sustainable Growth Forum

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Beyond Institutional Skill Development

The importance of soft skills, job placements, counseling and skill forecasting
Presented by: Sally Sinclair Chief Executive Officer National Employment Services Association
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Definition & Frameworks

Employability Skills
Also known as Soft Skills

Foundational Skills
Also known as Core or Generic Skills
CORE SKILLS FRAMEWORK

Technical Skills
Job specific skills or competencies
AUSTRALIAN QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK AUSTRALIAN QUALITY TRAINING FRAMEWORK

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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS FRAMEWORK

COMMUNICATION TEAMWORK PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE & ENTERPRISE PLANNING & ORGANISING SELF-MANAGEMENT LEARNING TECHNOLOGY

LEARNING READING WRITING ORAL COMMUNICATION NUMERACY

AUSTRALIAN QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK The AQF provides the standards for Australian qualifications AUSTRALIAN QUALITY TRAINING FRAMEWORK Is the national set of standards training and assessment services for Australias vocational education and training system

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The Importance of Soft Skills

Performance in the workplace is influenced by three inter-related sets of skills: technical, core and employability

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Performance is also determined by the features, expectations and requirements of the context in which it is taking place.
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Developing Skills
Approaches to address skill deficits require collaborative contribution from stakeholders and should not be seen as the responsibility of one domain
(education, employer or labour market assistance programs)

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ESPs

Skills

Support

Employers

Training providers

Sustainable Employment
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Employability Skills Strategies

Australian Employment Services
Better practices for developing employability skills:

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Joined Up or Wrap Around Service Models

Coordination of concurrent interventions to improve circumstances and address employability, core and technical skills development

Family Directed Strategies

Joined up services for jobless family units particularly effective in tackling intergenerational unemployment

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Employability Skills Strategies

Better practices for developing employability skills:

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Work Experience & Transitional Work Models

Experience in environments with work like expectations. Examples of initiatives: Work for the Dole - project based work experience Social Enterprises can be both long term experience and fixed term with intent to move to open employment Supported Employment In work with intensive supports and often subsidised wages (fixed term or by productivity for disability)

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Employability Skills Strategies

Better practices for developing employability skills:

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Transition Support Strategies Direct placement into work with post placement support and/or
workplace mentors
These models often include short, intensive pre vocational training targeted at basic technical and employability skills

Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Strategies

Ensuring that workplaces are developed so that they provide a supportive environment for disadvantaged workers.

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Job Placement & Skill Forecasting

Better practices for developing employability skills:

Job Placement
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Negotiating a vacancy tailored to suit an individual job seeker rather that finding the job seeker to fit the vacancy has been effective in assisting disadvantaged job seekers into employment Referred to in Australia as reverse marketing /supply push models JobAccess website is available to assist with Job redesign and reasonable accommodations for people with a disability

Skills Forecasting
Essential to strategic development of job seekers to meet labour market demand. Information is most critical at the local level. Australian Employment Services have access to a Labour Market Information Portal website with a wide range of data available
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Contact Details:
National Employment Services Association (NESA)
Level 8, 20-22 Albert Road,

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South Melbourne, VIC, 3205

Phone: 03 9686 3500 E-mail: nesa@nesa.com.au Website: www.nesa.com.au
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